Saying the quiet part out load
Trump held on to the documents because he anticipated an opportunity to commit treason
Trump committed (or at least intended to commit) treason and the GOP doesn't want to hold him accountable because they are traitors as well.
FTA: Much of the history of the right in America is bound up with paranoia about the possible existence of traitors at high levels of government. Here is stark evidence of the existence of one at the very highest level of government, and Republicans are rushing to defend him … If the hoarding of state secrets as valuable currency cannot be called treason, the concept has gone the way of honor, truthfulness, and respect for law. It has ceased to exist for the Republican Party.
Sociopaths (such as Republicans) are not patriots unless it profits them. They are just as happy to be traitors. In this case, it profits them to be traitors.
